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1951
Michael Fisch, "An Anthropology of the Machine:...
An interview with Michael Fisch
80 min
1952
Snezana Lawrence, "A New Year's Present from a ...
An interview with Snezana Lawrence
53 min
1953
Robert Baker, "The Structure of Moral Revolutio...
An interview with Robert Baker
69 min
1954
Daniel A. Barber, "Modern Architecture and Clim...
An interview with Daniel A. Barber
59 min
1955
Daniel Oberhaus, "Extraterrestrial Languages" (...
An interview with Daniel Oberhaus
56 min
1956
Jennifer Burek Pierce, "Narratives, Nerdfighter...
An interview with Jennifer Burek Pierce
43 min
1957
Can we Bring Extinct Species Back?: A Conversat...
An interview with Beth Shapiro
40 min
1958
Elizabeth Catte, "Pure America: Eugenics and th...
An interview with Elizabeth Catte
61 min
1959
Charles R. Acland, "American Blockbuster: Movie...
An interview with Charles R. Acland
74 min
1960
Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolit...
An interview with Alyson K. Spurgas
79 min
1961
Paul Davies, "The Demon in the Machine: How Hid...
An interview with Paul Davies
75 min
1962
Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the G...
An interview with Eben Kirksey
59 min
1963
Jeff Levin, "Religion and Medicine: A History o...
An interview with Jeff Levin
51 min
1964
S. L. Lewis and M. A. Maslin, "The Human Planet...
An interview with Mark Maslin
42 min
1965
Alicia Puglionesi, "Common Phantoms: An America...
Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century...
53 min
1966
Richard Ovenden, "Burning the Books: A History ...
An interview with Richard Ovenden
38 min
1967
Christopher M. Kelty, "The Participant: A Centu...
Kelty offers a historical ethnography of the concept of participation, investigating how the concept has evolved into the form it takes today...
51 min
1968
Jeremy Black, "Tank Warfare" (Indiana UP, 2020)
The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks...
50 min
1969
Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist...
An interview with Nick Haddad
53 min
1970
Trevor Pearce, "Pragmatism's Evolution: Organis...
Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s...
48 min
1971
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: F...
The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages...
28 min
1972
Jose Sanchez, "Architecture for the Commons: Pa...
An interview with Jose Sanchez
27 min
1973
Edward Wilson-Lee, "The Catalogue of Shipwrecke...
After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library to collect everything ever printed...
46 min
1974
Erica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophy...
Fretwell allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism....
69 min
1975
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" ...
Ballestero looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America...
56 min